[Sw-l] [SPAM] Re: Video+Emoji chat for Signing and SignWriting communities

[John Carlson]

The only thing I have so far is NSM-DALIA.  NSM is Natural Semantic
Metalanguage.  Michael Turner introduced both of them to me.
https://github.com/Yakushima/NSM-DALIA
It doesn't have anything to do with Signing or SignWriting, but offers some
in terms of translation.  It looks like the author of NSM-DALIA has made
his/her work pretty impenetrable.

My font design was more about turning on and off pixels.  I designed a
cursive font for ASCII visible characters.

I did some work on translating from NSM atoms (in English) to Signing
Videos in ASL and SignWriting (for English), mostly using web page
scraping.  It was a pretty basic hack with symbols only, no phrases, per
se.  It looks like you're working on vectors and surfaces.  Are you
categorizing those, or doing something different?

Let me know if you want help hooking any of your work up to Discord or
other communication software. I pride myself on developing
multi-user software (mesh editor, solitaire, chat).

John


On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 2:51 AM Amit Moryossef <amitmoryossef at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi John -
> As for font development, this is an open issue
> <https://github.com/sutton-signwriting/font-ttf/issues/4> with
> SignWriting.
> I have recently hired someone to develop this font, so if you have
> experience and want to take a jab at it yourself, or are available to
> consult the developer, please let me know!
>
> As for a translation software between sign language (I assume as a video)
> and SignWriting - I'm working on it for my PhD.
> If you have any specific idea how to accomplish this, please let me know
> as well. Otherwise, in the next few weeks I'll be introducing some basic
> translation software.
>
>
> Amit
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 4:28 AM John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My name is John C.  I’ve been a lurker for a while.      I wonder if
>> there are other online communities for deaf people. I wonder if there’s a
>> place for real-time or instantaneous communication in SignWriting and other
>> Sign Languages.   In the last couple of years, the Discord chat software
>> has become popular among gamers and disabled communities, it offers
>> features like emojis and video chat.  So, I’ve been curious to hook up
>> signing video chat and SignWriting on a Discord “server,” which hosts many
>> “channels.” I have a couple of people wanting to write a Discord bot, and I
>> thought it would be cool to try to write a translation bot between one or
>> more sign languages and SignWriting.   I think the first step may be to
>> hook up a SignWriting composition system to Discord, even if it’s copy and
>> paste.
>>
>> My experience involves writing chat systems and client bots and software
>> since the 80s.   I have been retired for many years, but remain active in
>> online communities.   My cohort wants to get involved in writing bots in
>> Java, which I have used for many years.   I also have experience writing a
>> font or two for computer  terminals (and old term for keyboards and screens
>> hooked up to a computer).
>>
>> The beginning of a discussion…
>>
>> John
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